Interavia Business & Technology articles

Recent articles from Interavia Business & Technology

From crisis to opportunity.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
June 22, 2006... On June 13, Airbus announced that the I delivery schedule of the A380 "will undergo a shift of six to seven months due to production ramp-up issues". The next day, the share price of EADS lost some 26% on the stock market. For months, there had been rumours about the industrial difficulties...

Congress worried about NextGen.(AIR TRANSPORT BRIEFING)(Next Generation Air Transportation System Integrated Plan)(Brief article)
June 22, 2007... The US Congress is worried that all is not well with the FAAs NextGen effort to overhaul the US air transportation system. At a recent hearing before the House Science & Technology Committee's Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, Chairman Mark Udall noted that a year-ago promise by the...

... As Galileo stumbles.(SPACE)(Brief article)
June 22, 2007... The European Commission has decided that the roadmap for the Galileo satellite radio navigation programme needs adapting" to meet the deadline of 2012 by when Galileo should be fully operable, and that the public-private partnership set up to implement Galileo needs to be "reprofiled" to...

Spain gets first modernised P-3.(DEFENCE)(Brief article)
June 22, 2007... The Spanish Air Force has accepted the first of five P-3 aircraft modernised by EADS CASA. The modernised P-3 Orion aircraft will make it possible to precisely and efficiently carry out both security and defence missions and support to other institutions, such as the detection and control...

NATO adopts refuelling standard.(DEFENCE)(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
June 22, 2007... In what is described as a milestone in coalition and international military interoperability, the US Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy have adopted a single manual for fixed-wing air-to-air refueling, or AAR, procedures, replacing more than 17 separate weapon system-specific AAR manuals. ...